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"I guess someone will rewrite this…"

Well now that someone could be YOU!

Description

Our website is filled with long-forgotten pages, remembered briefly only to be left collecting dust in the open for rewrite category. You will find these pages begging you to rewrite them amongst the lists of healthy pages. These pages can be saved. PLEASE SAVE THEM. No more will we gaze upon wasted potential and sigh over the reputedly tedious rewrite application process.

This is your chance to make history! Claim one of these pages as your own. Rewrite it to achieve greatness. Publish it to be beloved by the masses.1

Eligible pages list

From the list of pages open to rewrite, only the following pages are available to be rewritten for this contest:

Levels
All open for rewrite levels and sub-sections EXCEPT Levels 0 to 99, 150, 283, 404, 601, 666, and 777, 940, and their respective sub-sections.
Entities
ONLY Entities 22, 37, 44, 55, 61, 95, 104, 110, 114, 120, 143, 152, 194, 196, 198, 222, 227, 230, 231, 440, 456, and the Conductor.
Objects
ONLY Objects 31, 32, 43, 66, 69, 83, 87, and 97.
Other
No other pages are allowed to be rewritten for this contest.

Rules

  • You may not submit a rewrite of any page that is not in the eligible list above.
  • Co-written entries are permitted, though only one entry is allowed per person. You may invite authors to join your rewrite after you join.
  • Pages rewritten in this contest do not count towards the rewrite cap.
  • If you have not posted your draft by the end of the posting period, it will follow the standard rewrite procedure.
  • Participants may only submit their entry during the designated posting period. Any pages that are submitted early or late will be deleted, and the author may face disciplinary action.
  • Contest entries that fall below the deletion threshold will not be deleted for the duration of the voting period. However, once the voting period concludes, all pages that are still below the threshold will be deleted.
  • We'd like to remind all users that the use of AI-generated content for pages or critique is banned. If you have any questions about what resources are allowed, please feel free to ask a staff member.

Participation

Everyone who signs up to this contest can request up to 3 pages they'd like to rewrite, one of which will be reserved for them. In the case of specific pages being highly requested, staff will assign pages to participants based on the priority system below, so not everyone may end up getting their first choice.

Sign-up template

Request the pages you want to rewrite in the discussion forum of this page by using the following template:

**Username of Participant(s):** [[*user (your Wikidot username)]] / (Discord username)

**First Choice for Rewrite:**

**First Choice Original Author(s):**

**Second Choice for Rewrite:** (optional)

**Second Choice Original Author(s):**

**Third Choice for Rewrite:** (optional)

**Third Choice Original Author(s):**

You may edit your post to change your choices if you wish, as long as it's before the sign-up deadline. Make sure your choices are in the order of the pages you want the most to the least. If there are any issues or conflicts with the pages you selected, a staff member will contact you via Wikidot or Discord.

Priority system

The priority system for who gets highly requested pages is as follows:

  1. If you are the original author of the page, you will have the highest priority.
  2. For everyone else, we will assign pages by spinning a wheel to ensure equal chances.
  3. If matchmaking gets too complicated, we may have to defer to staff for manual assignment.

How to Post

When posting your rewrite, you must do so with the url 'con-name'. This will remain until the contest ends, when the surviving articles will be moved to their respective urls and their original counterparts will be archived.

Pages can be coldposted during the posting period using the password "rewritecon2026". Any pages that use this password for reasons unrelated to the contest will be deleted immediately, and the user will face disciplinary action.

When you post your con page, add the tag "rewritecon2026". Articles with this tag will show up on this page. You must also set this page as the parent page.

Dates

May 1st 2026

Participants may sign up and declare their page choices.

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May 8th 2026

The sign-up period ends. The page assignment period begins.

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May 10th 2026

[CURRENT] Pages get assigned, and the writing period begins.

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June 14th 2026

The posting period begins. You can still write during the posting period.

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June 28th 2026

All pages MUST be posted by this date. The voting continues.


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July 12th 2026

The voting is concluded, and the winners announced!

Con Staff

The following users are Con Staff. They are in charge of reviewing entries, managing submissions, and announcing results. Due to this, they are not allowed to participate in the contest in any way, shape, or form. If you have any issues or questions about the contest, please contact them via Discord or Wikidot PM.

Rewards and Achievements

The author of the highest-rated article will receive the Contest Winner role. Additionally, the authors of the top 3 articles will each choose a monthly feature for July.

In a Backrooms Wikidot first, you can earn achievements throughout this con!2 These are bonus objectives that challenge you to think outside the box and bring life back to a few of our other forgotten aspects. The participant who incorporates the most achievements within their page will receive the Gamemaster role.

The list of achievements for this con is below:

Politician
Write a page for a GOI that doesn't have a tag yet (list here).
Diplomat
Include more than three GOIs in a significant way.
You've been here before
Include at least 1 image or artwork that you created yourself.
The You You Are
Write exclusively in second person, as if the reader is experiencing it.
Hidden Potential
Make use of tags currently featured on less than 20 pages.
Resourceful
Write a page within ±10% of the original word count.
Undefined
Write a page without any classification system.
Old-school
Write a page without any theme or major CSS elements.
Alternative universes
Write the page to make it a part of a canon it wasn't part of initially.
Roleplayer
Write a page using only in-universe documentation.

Good luck and have fun!

Tesspurple

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